Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-06-24
loyal henchmen from rock and hill
and heather than this subservient,
disloyal order to rouse patriots.

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DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE LOADED
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
81 End that those old rebel flags
are loaded. | guess I'll let them
alone."-l e.. G.
NOT AN OBJECT OF YENERATI0N.
From the Lincoln (Neb. State Journal
The bull.necked Accident from
Buffalo isn't the fairest among ten
thousand and the one altogether
lovely in the eyes Of the q. A. X.
boys of this great country-not by
a good deal.
A TABLEAU NOT ON THE PROGRAM.
From the indianapolis Journal
The relations between General
Fairchild and President Cleveland
are likely to be somewhat strained
from this time forward. AT all
events, the two will not tall upon
each others necks in fraternal en-
brace at the G. A. II. reunion at
st. Louis in September.
APPALLING HEARTLEssNEss.
From the Boston Journal.
The same hand which wrote veto
messages jeering at the wounds
and sutferings of Union soldiers
was the hand which directed the
return Of the flags.
Governor Marmaduke, of Mis-.
souri,, says:
az am clearly of the opinion that
the Government of the States, unit
ed should not preserve as mementos
or as trophies the flags that we're
carried in battle BY any of the clti-
zens of the several States during
our civil war, but they should be
restored to the hands which bore
them, on either side, and made their
history, for it IS there they will be
most carefully and tenderly pre-.
served. What remains OF each reg
iment is the best custodian Of its
own colors."
Governor Wilson, Of West Vir-
ginia, says:
81 do not believe that State flags
should be held by our Government
as trophies Of war. / should rath-
er see them returned to the States
whence they came. 1t would be
but an Offering for the cultivation
of that broad American patriotism
so absolutely essential to the future
greatness of our common country"
The Baltimore Sun says the Pres.
idents action in resembling his order
for the return of the Southern flags
"will have the appearance, at least,
of backing down in the face of
partisan clsmor.r AS Adjutant
General Drum says the practice
heretofore has been to return such
flags to the North, and as Assist
ant Adiutant General Green says
there is nothing in the Statutes
that prohibits such return, many
people not only think the Presi-
dents action referred to "has the
appearance Of backing down in the
face of partisan clsmor," but can
not be induced to think it was any
thing else than real back down in
the face of such clamor.
GOV. LLOYD AND THE FLAGS.
The following is the reply of Gov.
Henry Lloyd, of Maryland, to an
INQUIRY sent by the New York
World prior to President Cleve-
lands order for the return of the
flags. The Governors reply is
dated Cambridge, Nd, June II;
"Were there no doubt Of the
Presidents power to order the re-
turn OF the flags captured from the
Confederate soldiers during the late
war, l can see no improperly in
the order which he, upon reflection,
has revoked. | see no reason why
| the emblems Of last cause should
be preserved as trophies by one
section OF common country that 1t
may gloat and rejoice over the 9th
er. When ! see the surviving sold
iers of both sections commingling
in paying honor to the memory of
their dead and strewing alike with
flowers the graves of all who fell
upon both sides, | think it full time
to bury the sectional spirit that
would raise its voice in protest
either OF the restoration or destruc.
ton of the Confederate colors now
in the governments possession
Were they the trophies of a for
eign conquest it would be well to
preserve them as proper objects of
national pride and prowess, but
where they are the relics of an I'M
fortunate civil strife, which | wish
we could all forget, say by all
means remove each and every ob.
stacle which by any possibility
might be construed as weakening
or delaying that complete fraterni-
zation Of the States, which all pro-
fess to desire, though some be false
to their profession"
The New York World says
The Southern States have no.
asked for the flags. No Northern
man outside OF Washington ap-
pears to have suggested it. If there
is any significance attached TO the
custody OF the flags it is better
that they should remain in the
keeping of Government that now
represents q restored Union OF
loyal States, rather than be held
as symbols OF a lost cause IN the
communities that have no lack OF
mementees.
That there is no luminosity felt
| towards the Southern soldiers by
those who fought against them is
shown by a succession of such in.
4 cidents as the hearty reception OF
the Robert f. Lee Camp Of Con-
fsderate Veterans at Boston, now
! in progress.
| President Cleveland, realizing
the folly Of arouslnga discussion
at this time, has written a letter
emphaticslly Withdrawing his ap-
proyal of the scheme to return the
trophies. He says that if anything
| r.-tt.o- - HOna In Tho fnatfar IN